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Credit & Copyright: STS-91 Crew,
NASA
Explanation:
While orbiting the planet during their June 1998 mission,
the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery
photographed this view of two moons of Earth.
Thick storm clouds are visible in the lovely blue planet's
nurturing atmosphere
and its largest artificial moon, the spindly
Russian Mir space station,
can be seen
above the planet's limb.
The bright spot to the right of Mir is Earth's
very large natural satellite, The Moon.
The Mir orbits
planet Earth once every 90 minutes
about 200 miles above the planet's surface or about 4,000 miles
from Earth's center.
The Moon orbits once every 28 days at a distance of about
250,000 miles from
the center of the Earth.
Russia now
plans to deorbit
the Mir space station
after
15 years of operation.
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